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AQ and AW are team based game modes. Theres strategy involved for the whole thing. Link nodes help the flow and develop that team mentality. Maybe instead of only being concerned about yourself, you coordinate with your BG to get nodes down faster. What the downside in that?

AQ and AW are absolutely the place for linked nodes. It encourages teamwork and communication.

On the other hand I do hate seeing them in event and story quests. Often they are placed at the end and you have to get through all of the linked champs to take them down, see the current Save the Battlerealm event, you have to fight through two linked champs and then undo the link on the third fight. Why aren't those just local nodes for each one?

In stories you have to go around and undo links that have nothing to do with the path you are completing and that makes little sense either. Unless for full exploration the node stays down permanently after it is down.

In both cases they are more irritants than anything, because I am a logical thinker and really they should be local nodes.

That's not team work. That's taking turns. There's no strategy or anything challenging about a link node. The team work evolved in aq and aw is everyone clearimg their path, thus allowing the team to 100% clear. The link nodes just slow that down and are not needed.